New roots in America's sacred ground : religion, race, and ethnicity in Indian America / Khyati Y. Joshi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joshi, Khyati Y., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indian Americans--Ethnic identity.

East Indian Americans.

East Indian Americans--Religion.

East Indian Americans--Social conditions.

Religious minorities--United States--Social conditions.

Religious minorities.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

Religion and sociology--United States.

Religion and sociology.

United States--Religion.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this compelling look at second-generation Indian Americans, Khyati Y. Joshi draws on case studies and interviews with forty-one second-generation Indian Americans, analyzing their experiences involving religion, race, and ethnicity from elementary school to adulthood. As she maps the crossroads they encounter as they navigate between their homes and the wider American milieu, Joshi shows how their identities have developed differently from their parents' and their non-Indian peers' and how religion often exerted a dramatic effect. The experiences of Joshi's research participants reveal how race and religion interact, intersect, and affect each other in a society where Christianity and whiteness are the norm. Joshi shows how religion is racialized for Indian Americans and offers important insights in the wake of 9/11 and the backlash against Americans who look Middle Eastern and South Asian. Through her candid insights into the internal conflicts contemporary Indian Americans face and the religious and racial discrimination they encounter, Joshi provides a timely window into the ways that race, religion, and ethnicity interact in day-to-day life.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

1. Religion in America

2. Ethnicity and Religion

3. Facets of Lived Religion

4. What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?

5. Religious Oppression

6. Case Studies

Epilogue

APPENDIX

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-94708-X

9786610947089

0-8135-3988-9

OCLC:

77562058